Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Fu was something of a novelty among Chinese generals. In the field, he wore the plain cotton-padded uniform of a private, drove his own jeep, ate with his men. U.S. General Albert C. Wedemeyer had found those men the best-drilled soldiers in China. So, before that, had the Japanese whom General Fu harried for eight years. And so, last year, had the Chinese Communists; Fu's crack cavalry had caught them unprepared in Kalgan, had driven them out and reopened 500 miles of railroad west of Peiping. That area was still firmly in government hands, thanks...
...chilly October day in 1905, another young man with great possessions dropped half a dozen letters into a Paris post box. Though Albert Schweitzer was only 30, he had already achieved far more than most men do in a lifetime. He was recognized as one of Europe's leading organists; his biography of Bach had been hailed as "a new revelation." As a Doctor of Philosophy, he was known for his work on Kant. As a theologian, he had been appointed principal of Strasbourg's Theological College of St. Thomas...
Princely Prose. The first article, which LIFE publishes this week, has a few remembered glimpses of the late Victorian era into which David was born, and many a richly detailed picture of the Edwardian era in which he was reared. He was christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, but "to my family I was and always have been 'David.'" He recalled "the great Queen" as an old lady in a white tulle cap, black satin dress and "shiny black shoes with elastic sides. But what fascinated me most about her was her habit of taking breakfast...
Direction and settings, by Albert Marre and John Holabird, were outstanding. Other technical points, including music, lighting, and costumes, were also excellent, with the exception of certain first-night mishaps...
Tall, talkative Albert Hibbs, a graduate student in mathematics at Chicago, had devised the system on a bet with Medical Student Roy Walford. They took a term off from the university to try it out. It was a "progressive parlay" based on mathematical probability, some intricate slide-rule calculations, and two assumptions: that any roulette wheel follows a pattern of its own, and that good or bad luck runs in streams. The key to the Hibbs-Walford approach: increase bets in streams of good luck, never increase or reduce them in streams of bad luck...